Sam Anderson, a writer for The New York Times Magazine, tweets the best sentence he reads each day, like this from D.H. Lawrence describing the affection of Italians: “They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Tweets of Great Sentences”
Grant, here’s another arresting sentence from the Twitter feed of Sam Anderson.
It’s D.H. Lawrence on the physical affection of Italians.
It goes, they pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips.
Ooh, nice.
Yeah, I like it.
If you happen to like parsnips.
Well, I’m thinking Italians, parsnips, I don’t know.
But I like it.
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